every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Monday, 20 May 2013

IT’S IPL MESS ALL OVER! COULD YOU HEAR THEM SPEAKING OF THE DPCO?

It has swept over the thinking horizon. A
mercurial, controversial but a glamorous cricketer, a high-octane, high-decibel
but low-sportsmanship spirit form of the gentleman’s game, a manifestation of
the perennial human greed again and a hyperactive Indian media in an
over-competitive market – the last week has been a potboiler with
minute-by-minute coverage of what we know as ‘the Indian Premier League Spot
Fixing scandal’, that the efficient-but-reckless-but-insensitive Delhi Police,
by chance, came to know and pursued and dug more. The revelations are still a
work-in-progress.

That is good. Cricket ‘was’ like a
religion in India.
Millions would sleep and get-up remembering and analysing the last seen game. Even
now, if it is an India-Pakistan game, the whole nation still comes to a
standstill.

But, the sorry state of affairs is, we cannot
write now something like this - ‘cricket has been like a religion in India’ –that
we used to read and write so frequently in the past!

And the major factor behind it is the
credibility crisis that began to erode with the match-fixing scandals the first
big casualties which were the likes of Mohammad Azaharuddin, seen as one of India’s most
successful captains. Since then, cricket-fixing (betting) has taken away the
sheen from the game. Cricket is now no more a game of flow of emotions. Rather,
it has become a form of calculated, commoditized entertainment to be purchased,
much like an IPL tournament.

Nothing wrong in that! Existence of the human
mind needs entertainment but why to get swept away in the wave. Except that we
are slipping in the quagmire of the misplaced priorities!

The IPL spot-fixing story has pushed everything
else to the periphery as if nothing else is moving in this country of over a
billion. In all this business of market sentimentalism and priority-shopping, a
very important development was left almost untouched, very comfortably.

The development has the potential to change the
lives of the millions, millions of the Indians who cannot afford the healthcare
due to exorbitantly high prices of medicines.

The development is a must for a developing
country like India
which has the world’s second largest population.

The development is a must for a country like India where the
majority of the population is quality-illiterate, where school dropout rate is
a national shame, where education and healthcare, though necessary, are seen as
additional burden-heads on the monthly household budget.

The government on May 16 cleared the long pending
Drug Price Control Order 2013 (DPCO) under the National
Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy 2012 to bring 348 essential medicines and 652
formulations under a controlled-pricing mechanism.

The DPCO that is to come into force in July is
expected to bring down the cost of the essential medicines by 20-25 per cent
and in some case, like the anti-cancer drugs, by 80 per cent.

27 therapeutic areas that are to be covered
under it include cardiac, pain killers, anti-allergic, gastro-intestinal,
anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-leprosy, anti-tuberculosis and
anti-hypertensive medicines.

The DPCO has the mechanism to keep the prices
in check with only annual price-revision allowed and that too, has to be a
market-based revision unlike the cost-based one that is in practice now. Another
good aspect is the prices of the imported drugs, too, would come under this
pricing-control regulation.

Now, this is a significant social empowerment
milestone. Increased access to the essential medicines for millions means
improved health of the nation. It is a good beginning and it is needed to be talked,
discussed and spread if we intend to build further on it.

Increasingly, we have seen the governments come
easily under the pressure of the industrial lobbies and we have all the reasons
to think that this watchdog too, would be vulnerable to manipulations. We need
to develop a vigilant voice to keep a check on it and that needs a healthy
tradition of debate over it.

Non-governmental organizations and various
social groups have been fighting for the controlled-pricing mechanism to
regulate prices of the essential and life-saving drugs and this is indeed a
significant victory. But there are many other necessary requirements on the
agenda. There have been debates on introducing and promoting generic versions
of the costly medicines to meet the healthcare demands of the majority of the
Indians and that has to be implemented on priority.

The DPCO notification could well have been an
opportunity to extend such debates from the environs of the social groups to
the larger public sphere to make the ‘populations’ a direct stakeholder in the
process.

But the speakers of the public interest didn’t
see a glamour-quotient here and such an issue of social vitality was conveniently
buried under the debris of the IPL mess.

When would we understand to prioritize? Why do
we need some Aamir Khan to push us to act on the matters of social relevance?

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